Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Many reasons. First of all, personally, if it had not been for the Tonight show and Johnny Carson, I wouldn't have a car -- probably wouldn't have shoes. But the real reason I look up to the guy is the longer I do this, the more respect I...
A President's first weeks in office are remembered more for symbolism than for lasting achievements. Jimmy Carter turned the White House thermostat down to 65 degrees F. Ronald Reagan slapped a freeze on federal hiring. For Bush, the goal was to let Americans know that the new President, unlike...
Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, has good reason to be optimistic that things may be different under George Bush. The expectation in foreign policy circles is that instead of trying to make Ortega cry uncle, the Bush Administration -- by necessity as much as by choice -- will approach Nicaragua with...
-- Gentleman from the New York Times calling out to House Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Leader Tom Foley, who have just visited President Bush at the White House: "Come on over here and dump on them." Recall Lyndon Johnson's characterization of this singular capital: "A lot of people just...
"I just had to do something," Doss says. He decided to create an "urban prep school," blending academics, athletics and inspiration to transform high school dropouts and going-nowhere graduates into irresistible college prospects. He focused on girls, because colleges already lavished aid on male phenoms.